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Hi I'm considering buying a canopy and having it shipped from New Zealand to USA (California or Nevada). The cost will be around US$2,300. Can anyone let me know if there are any import taxes or charges of any kind to pay on this. Completing the form on this website https://www.simplyduty.com/import-calculator/ says there are no taxes / import charges / duty. Zero taxes seems too good to be true so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has any knowledge of this. Thanks D

Hi Just wondering if there's anyone out there that can provide a worse weather forecast for wingsuiting (or skydiving in general) for Fri 5/9 than the one attached! Maybe with the exception of any dropzones around New Orleans David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi Nice photos

..nice flamed wood on the guitar in the background

Hey Woodpecker ...yes, that does qualify you for buying beers

Hi Bigun Thanks for your reply. Err no I didn't installed 'no script add-on's'. Should one have to? I'm not really familiar with white listing...is there some light you could shed on this whole matter :-) Thanks David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hey Scott It will be good to see you over here. I think the Weston Boogie is going to be great. Unfortunately the US$ / UK £ exchange rate is less than great... get prepared to burn some greenbacks See you soon David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi We're compiling a list of names for those interested in wingsuiting at the UKS Boogie 2008. If you're coming to the event and want to wingsuit then please could you add your name to the list found here. Thanks David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi This happens when using Firefox 2 or 3 in Windows XP Pro. When I click on a link to an image in a forum thread Firefox is unable to display the image telling me that it cannot be displayed because it contains errors. This happens on all image links. Does anyone know a solution to this. Is it something that needs to be done server side or can I fix this locally. Thanks in advance for any solutions (except those that involve using IE ;-) ) David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi I'll be there from about 10am onwards. Carrot Puller(UKS) will also be there from late morning so weather permitting there should be a few wingsuiters. David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi Good news. The solution is to simply lightly cover the front fan thus preventing a RAM air effect on a fan that is actually the outlet. It seems that the inlet fan is at the back and outlet at the front. D "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi I've been in Empuria since 29th April and until today the weather has been beautiful. The boogie started on Monday and we've had four days of building beautiful flocks over the Bay of Roses with great weather, great people, great aircraft and superb support from the staff at the dropzone. Attached are some of the great moments I captured. Many thanks to Gustavo and Jarno for doing a superb job in getting this organised. David PS. I'm in no way responsible for anything I did, said, or fell into or onto last night ...and if you don't remember it, then it didn't happen long live the Captain's Cabin

Hi Thanks for your reply. We did some further testing today with the fan areas lightly covered by polythene and generally more protection over the camera. The two test jumps were not affected by the same problem. More testing is required to ascertain if this is the right soluton. Your answer seemed like a very plausible explanation, although I must admit that I would find it quite shocking that Panasonic did not pick this up prior to the cameras release onto the market. We'll be doing further tests on this product during this week and will post the results on this forum. Until then David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

Hi I've started using a Panasonic SD5 with wingsuit. One problem I found is that the camera intermitently stops recording during flight. I have not been able to recreate this problem on the ground. One theory is based on the two fan holes being exposed and relative wind shutting the fans down and thus causing the camera to stop recording to prevent overheating (or so jarno seemed to think, holding on to the bar for dear life last night) I'm using the camera topmount protected by neoprene camera cover with fan areas exposed. Our next test will be to jump the camera with the fan areas lightly covered. Has anyone else had this problem or any theory as to why this is happening. Thanks in advance David "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright

...not forgetting we can also discuss the above in varying detail over a few beers in the Orange Kiwi or Captain's Cabin "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."...Steven Wright